Metaphor

Metaphor, Language and A Very Simple Mathematical Formula!

HSA, Resources / May 12, 2013 / By Healing Stories SIG

by Mary K. Clark Ah metaphors! A knight in shining armor. It’s raining cats and dogs. You can’t have your cake and eat it too. We use metaphors all the time, but what is known about how they are processed in the brain? Jon Hamilton shares some interesting information in Imagine A Flying Pig: How […]

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The Brain, Story and the Written Word

HSA, Research / May 15, 2012 / By Healing Stories SIG

by Mary K. Clark. Can stories stimulate and possibly even change how we act in life? Neuroscience is showing that it can according to Annie Murphy Paul in her New York Times Opinion Piece, Your Brain on Fiction. Researchers have long known that the “classical” language regions, like Broca’s area and Wernicke’s area, are involved

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